New research project by Sabine Hess:
Expertise on the establishment of a documentation center for the victims of the NSU:
"Nationwide stocktaking of reappraisal activities and integration of affected persons' perspectives"
-Commissioned by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)-.
As a first planning step towards a possible place of remembrance and a documentation center for the victims of the NSU - as envisaged in the coalition agreement of the current federal government - a team at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology (Sabine Hess, Lee Hielscher, Çaǧan Varol, Jelka Günther, Eva Apelt, Yasmin Dreessen) was commissioned by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) with an expertise to qualitatively classify the nationwide reappraisal activities on the NSU complex and to discuss fundamental questions about the orientation, contents and structures of such a place with those affected and their relatives as well as with supporting groups, victim counseling services and lawyers.
The aim is to find out how they would like to see such a place (or places) against the background of their struggles for clarification and remembrance. In doing so, various structural, methodological and content-related considerations - for example, with regard to the location, the tasks, the prerequisites for participation and co-design or the requirements for a legal supporting structure - are to be reflected upon. A recommendation is to be drafted as to how the perspective of those affected and their relatives can be placed centrally in all steps of realization.
The expertise is one of three clusters that serve as a basis for the preparation of a feasibility study by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and in which fundamental questions for a concept of an Documentation Center for the victims of the NSU are to be discussed.
More information can be found <here>.
Related publications: „Zeugnis ablegen und gehört werden: Betroffenenperspektiven auf ein mögliches Dokumentationszentrum zum NSU-Komplex“ by Sabine Hess in the bpb's "ApuZ: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte" on the NSU complex.
